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Box teams with Okta to make accessing files from mobile devices safer
With cyberattacks against the enterprise continuing to increase both in sophistication and frequency, traditional authorization functionality is no longer sufficient to protect employee-owned devices. Box Inc. is expanding its partnership with Okta Inc. this morning to help organizations that rely on its collaboration platform bolster their defenses and regulate mobile access to internal data more ...
Striim nabs $10M to enable real-time analytics without complex infrastructure
The venture capital community appears to have developed quite an interest in stream processing startups as of late. Just days after Israel’s Alooma Ltd. secured financing to help organizations pipe new data into their business intelligence environments in real-time, Striim Inc. has announced the completion of a $10 million investment that will go towards widening the ...
EMC scores partial victory against Pure Storage in patent dispute
One of the most closely-watched legal battles in the enterprise storage market appears to have come to a tentative end this week after a jury ruled that Pure Storage Inc. must pay EMC Corp. $14 million for violating its intellectual property. The WSJ reports that the technology at stake was a piece of deduplicated software ...
Salesforce.com moves into the multi-billion dollar field service space
For the third time since the begining of the month, Salesforce.com Inc. is rolling out new functionality for its customer management platform. Today’s update brings an entire standalone service designed to help the technicians and other specialists who work with an organization’s clientele out in the trenches to become more productive. The cloud giant first ...
Couchbase gets $30M from VCs to expand the adoption of its document store
While they’re not nearly as quick to provide funding as they were a year ago, technology investors are apparently still willing to bet big when it comes to data management software. Sorenson Capital and half a dozen other private equity heavyweights this morning announced that they’ve led a $30 million round of financing into Couchbase Inc., ...
HPE’s newest converged system is a branch office workhorse that can deploy VMs in 5 clicks
While the average corporate branch office doesn’t require a lot of infrastructure to support its operations, the limited amount of equipment that does have to be deployed on the premises is expected to provide many of the same capabilities as a full-blown data center. Hewlett Packard Enterprise added a new model to its hyperconverged appliance ...
Alphabet’s GV leads $30M investment into secure server maker Skyport
Alphabet Inc. is emerging as an unlikely force for change in the data center. Two weeks after the company teamed up with Facebook Inc. to widen the adoption of commodity infrastructure among enterprises, its venture capital arm is leading a $30 million investment into Skyport Systems Inc., a startup that has developed a new breed ...
SAP launches in-memory query engine for Spark into general availability
It’s becoming increasingly rare to see a major player in the open-source analytics ecosystem that doesn’t offer some sort of homegrown query engine. Every leading Hadoop distributor has one, as does Pivotal Software Inc., and now SAP SE is joining the fray too with the introduction of a new in-memory variant for Apache Spark. Vora ...
Crate bags $4M to provide an ultra-scalable SQL database for container clusters
Containerized services are so different from traditional software in design that even the most basic building blocks of application development are being reworked to better address their operational requirements. In the database layer, the effort is led by a European startup called Crate Technology GmbH, which has secured a $4 million investment from Docker Inc. ...
Alooma raises $11M to make ETL less of a pain
Before an analyst can dig into a new dataset, the information has to be physically moved from its original host system to an environment with the necessary tools for the job, which is much easier said than done. The topic returned to the industry spotlight today after Alooma Ltd. received $11.2 million in funding courtesy ...
